Brace yourselves, true believers. Stan Lee is working on a gratuitous excuse to further the already overexposed profile of an obscenely rich and vacant train wreck of a human being — oh, I mean developing an animated series for MTV starring Paris Hilton. Read it and weep here.

I know. It looks like a story right out of the Onion. But I guess we should expect Lee would be involved in something so ridiculous. Even if he did recently hook up with Disney. (Thanks for that tidbit, by the way, Sean.)

After all, Stan’s the man who not only helped create such comic-book legends as Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, but is also behind such wonky projects as the (un)reality series “Who Wants to Be a Superhero?” and that bust of a cartoon series “Stripperella” starring Pamela Anderson.

So for Stan Lee to play with Paris Hilton just seems like a logical progression.

And yes, God help me, I just used “Paris Hilton” and “logical” in the same sentence.